Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gregorio Pietro Agagianian

Armenian Cardinal Patriarch

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1895

Place of Birth: Akhaltsikhe, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia

Date of Death: 16-May-1971

Profession: Catholic priest

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Gregorio Pietro XV Agagianian (anglicized: Gregory Peter; Western Armenian: ?????? ?????? ??.
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Aghajanian; 18 September 1895 – 16 May 1971) was an Armenian Cardinal of the Catholic Church.
He was the head of the Armenian Catholic Church (as Patriarch of Cilicia) from 1937 to 1962 and supervised the Catholic Church's missionary work for more than a decade, until his retirement in 1970.
He was considered papabile on two occasions. Educated in Tiflis and Rome, Agagianian first served as leader of the Armenian Catholic community of Tiflis before the Bolshevik takeover of the Caucasus in 1921.
He then moved to Rome, where he first taught and then headed the Pontifical Armenian College until 1937 when he was elected to lead the Armenian Catholic Church, which he revitalized after major losses the church had experienced during the Armenian Genocide. Agagianian was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
He was Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Propaganda Fide) from 1958 to 1970.
Theologically a moderate, a linguist, and an authority on the Soviet Union, he served as one of the four moderators at the Second Vatican Council and was twice considered a serious papal candidate, during the conclaves of 1958 and 1963.